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Andy Francis is an A/V nerd at heart who has spent the last 15+ years sending audio and video over the internet. He has extensive experience working with everything from video conferencing to live event streaming to large-scale OTT platforms and is passionate about spreading knowledge and access to streaming technologies.
Bringing Industry-leading Turnaround Times to Short Form Content Bitmovin has recently seen an increase in demand for processing short form video content and faster turnaround times. This post will cover the most common use cases for short form video and how our new GPU acceleration for VOD encoding will benefit and add value for those…
What is Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) Streaming? Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR) is a technology used in modern video streaming applications that can dynamically adapt in real-time, in order to provide the best quality for each individual viewer. ABR streams take into account network conditions, screen size and device capabilities and can adjust on the fly to…
This post was originally published in October 2022. It has been updated with new developments, most recently on September 12, 2023 with news about Apple’s iPhone AV1 decoder. In this post, I’ll be taking a look at the current state of AV1 playback support, covering which browsers, mobile devices, smart TVs, consoles and streaming sticks…
If you work with video, picking a codec is a critical decision that will affect both your workflows and the quality of your output. There are many different video codecs available, and as they all offer different things, there’s no clear right choice. As devices and platforms evolve, the video format sands are ever-shifting. Here,…
This post will summarize the current state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications for video in 2023, including recent progress and announcements. We’ll also take a closer look at AI video research and collaboration between Bitmovin and the ATHENA laboratory that has the potential to deliver huge leaps in quality improvements and bring an end to…
Bitmovin is going Live! We’ve expanded on our award-winning VoD encoding engine to build a live encoding solution that is more resilient and cost efficient than anything before. Ready to run on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, the Bitmovin Live Event Encoder frees you from vendor lock-in and allows you to migrate or build multi-cloud…
Video developers and streaming engineers (including those at Bitmovin) are often using multiple tools to troubleshoot everything that can go wrong at different points in their end-to-end workflow. This usually means a mix of commercial and open-source solutions combined with some in-house tools that are only available within your company. For the past couple of…
At long last, we are happy to announce the beta version of our new Bitmovin CDN Streaming storage! Great, how does Bitmovin’s CDN Streaming storage help me? In the past, using the Bitmovin encoder meant you needed to provide your own output storage for your encoding jobs and then configure your own CDN for streaming…
What if I told you I could get you a sweet deal on a beautiful 1080p movie for less than 300 kbps? How about some stunning 4K under 700 kbps? Sounds too good to be true, right? Especially when you look at the recommended internet connection speeds from services like Netflix, YouTube, and Disney+: SD:…
The age of video is here, and it’s not going anywhere for a long time. Although we may not have reached the pinnacle of its growth, video content accounts for roughly 82% of all internet traffic as countless businesses have been adding it to their products and services to enhance the consumer experience. Although the…
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